Someone special once told me that each of us is so unique that though its difficult at times, we should consider ourselves as God’s masterpieces. Each person is different. Just like your “plain” friend, I’ve met a lot of people, who at first glance didn’t leave an impact on me, until I had the honour of getting to know them.

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On top of that “beautiful people” are targeted by the belief of fat people about “shallow people”.

Normally, fatness comes from addiction to food.
There is a group called “Overeaters anonymous” that welcome people who are addicted to food.
Food is used as a replacement of care, or a way to fight anxiety, and fat creates a barrier, a wall, to “stay away” from people.
When people reject fat people, subconsciously they stay away, and consciously they feel anxiety so they eat.

There are plenty of products that sieze this need of fat people to be accepted.
But the true is that no one may get thin if he/she does not heal the pain inside.
Once pain is healed, an appropriate diet and exercise, but mostly self-discipline (which is the toughest part) is the solution. Just like workout during one day or a month does not turn a man into Hercules, a day or a month of self-discipline will not have spectacular results.

The spectacular result comes after a few years of self-discipline, once the inner pain has been healed. There is a comic book called “Flaxen” by Dark Horse comics, where Susy Owens, a playmate who was a nurse who not “born beautiful”, tells her story in issue #1. The comic is about a gorgeous woman in superhero costume who was a fat nurse, and she saves fat women who envy her and do not suspect her past. It was aimed to help fat people. For obvious reasons it was not a major hit, because most of people do not understand the problems of fat people.

Owens built herself with diet, exercise and self-discipline in the 1980s. It is worth to take a look at issue #1.

This topic has fascinated me for a long time – body image being an issue to me – if only those of us with this issue could learn to see ourselves they way those who love us do.

Vered – I’m closing my blog. I just wanted to drop in and say thanks so much for being a big part of my blogging journey – when you and Chris joined club LLF (a small select club – heh) it was a turning point. Thank you!

I’ve enjoyed reading all of the comments on this fascinating post, and especially like J.D.’s “Beauty on the outside captures the eye, beauty on the inside captures the heart.” So true!